You were a dog of corporate, an AGENT serving one of the 26 ALPHABET COMPANIES.

Everything happened so fast.
You had to stand, but you couldn't.
It's funny to think you've set a new record.
But there was no time to cry or to laugh, to feel.
<span class="mu-s">It was only your first day on the job and you were already dead.</span>

<span class="mu-i">Above the dark days and the bright nights, the stars keep stabbing away into the darkness...</span>

<NEW TERMINAL FOUND>
<RECREATING VITAL FUNCTIONS>
<INITIALIZATION... OK>
<CONNECTING...>
<CONNECTING...>
<CONNECTING...>

"Wake up!" A voice you don't recognize. You cling onto every word, lifelines to reality. "Come on, you're not ready yet!"

The movement of your own chest shocks you to full alert. You open your eyes, blinking from the strength of the headlamp's beam, and stare into armored faceplate of a Depth Diver.

"Hey, would you look at that! Maybe there's hope for us yet. Come on, we need your hands!"

Everything hurts, especially your...
>Where was the KILLING BLOW?
but you're strong and able to keep the eggshell-thin walls of your mind from cracking.

"H-How am I-?" You collapse in a hacking cough. Weakened, but impossibly, miraculously <span class="mu-i">still alive.</span>

"Mitch, hold the door!" the sanitation technician shouts across the pipe-veined room.

"Goddamn it, Louis! I'm trying!" The metal door buckles despite his colleague's resistance.

"Can you stand? We're in a tight spot. You'll need to defend yourself."

"Y-Yes. Nnnngh... I don't feel too well."

"You need to focus! Whatever is coming through that door isn't happy about us being here! Get ready!"

As you shift into a vigilant stance, you reach down and grab your...
>What did you spend the entire OPERATION BUDGET of $20 on? (It can be theoretically be anything, but it will be twenty dollars worth of it.)